Old passports

[jaske78 1]

It says in the official USCIS video that they would like to see a copy of all your old, expired passports. However, I have read many, many people here who have been asked to show their passports during the time of their stay in America and for the prior five years.

 

Some of these old passports cannot be found (I don't keep old, expired passports, for instance).

 

Can someone confirm their experience with this? Did they insist on seeing your old passports from 1984, or not?

 

Thanks very much.

[Georgia16 2,858]

I don't have mine either and have never been asked for them. If I was asked I would tell them that they had been destroyed. 

[givionte 138]

I wasn't asked, but I recently provided my old passport as well as a copy of the stamp pages to the USCIS office in Guangzhou, and they were really thankful for it.  It makes it easier to prove someone has a history visiting another country, and tracking their whereabouts and matching up with information on the forms, but they certainly can't require an old passport since most people shred them after a while.  It's just secondary evidence, if you have it, great, if not, no big deal.

[Loren Y 2,732]

My fiancee provided her current and last 2 passports at the interview. They asked for them to verify travel that was listed on the I129F, and the ds-160. Some embassies require a police report saying your past passports were lost or destroyed. This is embassy specific, but most embassies have something in the letter they send you with a list of things to bring to interview, and I would say at least 80 percent want previous passports. Check your embassies instructions. Her passports unlike the US passport ( good for 10 years) was only good for 5 year increments, so she had about 13 years of passports with her. 

 

Since it looks like you are going for naturalization, I don't think it is as important as they were earlier in the process. I wouldn't worry too much.

Edited July 17, 2019 by Loren Y

[dilip 187]

13 hours ago, jaske78 said:

It says in the official USCIS video that they would like to see a copy of all your old, expired passports. However, I have read many, many people here who have been asked to show their passports during the time of their stay in America and for the prior five years.

 

Some of these old passports cannot be found (I don't keep old, expired passports, for instance).

 

Can someone confirm their experience with this? Did they insist on seeing your old passports from 1984, or not?

 

Thanks very much.

There is a questions on N-400  Did you use other names?  If after marriage, you changed your name and old passport has different name, they might ask you see the old passport or original birth certificate ( of your country of origin) during N-400 interview.

[LisaUK 22]

I just had my interview for naturalization and they wanted to see all of my passports (even the one from the 90s) but I think that is because I brought with me all of my passports. Although they took photocopies of all of the main photo pages, they only seemed really interested in the passports that showed any visas or travel since the start of my immigration journey. As long as you have those passports with your stamps and visa in then from my experience I believe you will be ok.

Edited July 19, 2019 by LisaUK
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